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Definition of Acid-base equilibrium
1. Noun. (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body. "With a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is slightly alkaline"
Category relationships: Physiology
Generic synonyms: Chemical Equilibrium, Equilibrium
Definition of Acid-base equilibrium
1. Noun. The state in which the concentrations of acidic and basic ions in a solution neutralize each other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Acid-base equilibrium
1. A condition in which the net rate of acid or alkali production by the body is balanced by the net rate of acid or alkali excretion from the body, resulting in a stable concentration of hydrogen ions in the body fluids. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acid-base Equilibrium
Literary usage of Acid-base equilibrium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Reaction of the Urine (a) The acid-base equilibrium in the Body The reaction of
normal urine is usually feebly acid to litmus paper. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Associated with this change in the acid-base equilibrium of the blood there ...
The acid-base equilibrium is more easily restored and can be maintained for ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"In these animals there has failed to develop any attempt to restore the normal
acid-base equilibrium of the blood. In the younger animals, however, ..."
4. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"This would seem to indicate that it must be the excitability of the respiratory
center rather than the acid-base equilibrium that becomes altered so as to ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Determinations of acid-base equilibrium in cerebrospinal fluid in pathologic and
nonpathologic subjects show that, under normal conditions, ..."
6. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"acid-base equilibrium: Acidosis: Alkalosis The maintenance in the body of acid-base
equilibrium or acid-base balance to keep the pH level of blood plasma ..."
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